Welcome to the #87 Carnival of Healing. Your weekly round up of the best healing articles posted around the blog-o-sphere. The carnival of healing is a great way to find some new articles to read, and to stumble across some great bloggers. Please feel free to check back through the carnival archives.

I really love having the carnival of healing stop by here at Reiki Blogger, because it offers an opportunity for me to broaden my perspective on healing, and gain some exposure to some ideas and parts of holistic healing that I may otherwise have not had the opportunity to learn about.

And this particular carnival is no exception, there is a diverse offering of carnies this week, and I encourage everyone to put on a pot of coffee and settle in for some good reading. Feel free to leave comments at the carnies’ sites and let them know what you thought of their entries.. I know everyone loves to feel like someone has connected with what they have written, so if it strikes a chord (good or bad) drop a quick comment and let the blogger know you read their post.. even better if you have your own blog, put up a “shout out” link to the posts you liked the best! Share the love.

First off this week we have a post from a Reiki Blogger reader JoLynn Braley which she says is about “healing the unhealthy relationship with the scale, getting off of it, and living your life!” check it out here.

John Wesley presents Fitness Experiment: 2 Weeks on the Slow Carb Diet and Going Strong posted at Pick the Brain. John’s blog is great! He writes on all things healthy with great authority and I am sure you will find tonnes of excellent articles throughout his site, well worth bookmarking and spending some time looking through.

Ananga presents 5 Ways to Master Your Emotions posted at Ananga Sivyer’s Living by Design Blog. I especially liked tip number 4 about time travel. I often hear myself saying that to our eldest son about the fact that there are no time machines. So, better to deal with the problem. Accept that what has happen, has actually happened. And get on and find the path forward (which is hard if that path involves owning up to punching your brother!).

Isabella mori presents relax posted at change therapy. I LOVED this post. I must confess I am a meditator, so it struck a chord. But, it is written in such a lovely way, and is so nice to read.

Megan Bayliss presents Imaginif: Home of the BITSS Model of Protective Behaviours posted at Imaginif…. Very thought provoking. I put this in the preventative healing section.

Karen Halls presents How to Overcome Pain Pill Addiction posted at Addiction Recovery Blog. Another good post about a serious issue. I think the opening line is very powerful.

Brandon Peele presents An Open Letter to My Parents posted at GT. Very interesting submission here. I will forewarn the sensitive reader there is a little swearing sprinkled in this post. But, again it is another very personal post written, perhaps ironically, with a very warm nature. I really liked this post, although the author almost makes it hard for you to like the post, because it mirrored many of my own feelings from days, not so long, gone by. And I wish the spiritual traveler, who is the author of this post, the very best of luck on the greatest adventure there is.

Aparna presents Home remedies for prickly heat posted at Beauty and Personality Grooming. Our kids go to a Steiner School so we love home remedies in our house. This was a new one for me.

Debra Moorhead presents What Gardening Has Taught Me About Life posted at Debra Moorhead.com. I especially liked number 6, about drinking enough water. A good friend of mine is always on about how people do not drink the right amount of water and how much it would help their energy and health if they did.

Hueina Su presents Homecoming to You: Re-connecting with Your Authentic Self posted at Intensive Care for the Nurturer’s Soul. I really liked the part about how personality traits can be either positive or negative depending on how you relate to them.

Christine Kane presents Doubt is a Drag Queen posted at Christine Kane’s Blog. This is a very interesting blogger. I would highly recommend spending some time getting to know Christine Kane. Great blog.

Raymond David Salas presents How to Make Your Life Easier posted at ZenChill.com Power Tools Blog. Ahh.. zen chill.. I love zen chill.. so close to my heart. Great carnival offering as usual. Zen Chill power tools for your life.

Craig Harper presents My Body is Not Who I am… It’s Just Where I Iive. posted at Motivational Speaker. Craig is another pro, you will get great stuff everday on his blog. There are a couple of bloggers in this carnie that can change your life, and Craig is one of them.

Pamm presents My Secret Spiritual Dance: Feeling God: The Breath posted at My Secret Spiritual Dance. Very interesting post and a beautiful picture.

Angela Lindenmuth presents Ouch, my back hurts? posted at Chiromom’s Soap Box.

Dr. Deb presents Robotic Pet Therapy posted at Dr. Deb. I liked the look of this blog, very clean design and nice feel to it. A good post and some nice pics.

And to round things off this week About.com’s very own healing blog editor Phylameana presents Curve Ball… Duck! posted at About Holistic Healing.

Well.. that is it! Thanks all for visiting. I hope you found some great posts to read and maybe even a couple of new favourite blogs to bookmark or subscribe to.. next week’s carnival will be held at MindMart.

Be Well.
TC

This weekend we will be hosting the About.com Carnival of Healing. Please send in your submissions by friday. Reiki Blogger readers that email their submissions directly (because, despite claims to the contrary, the comments are NOT working!) will go at the top of the list (interestingly, even if they are not the best posts in a given carnival, the posts that are at the top of the list are always the most clicked on..) So, I will be happily displaying blatant favoritism for Reiki Blogger readers!
There is no really strong criteria for submission to the carnival, you just need to write a post about healing, at least 200 words long, and send it to me by friday midnight.
Be well. TC

I think I have fixed the comments problem! So, please feel free to comment on old posts if you want to. I will be able to see any new comments posted, even if they are on a post 6 months old. If you want to browse the archive you can find them via the tab at the top of the page.

I hope you like the new theme. It seems to have ironed out some of the bugs.

I have a couple of posts I have been working on and will be posting this week, so please check back. Or better still subscribe to the feed, so you get the updates when they are posted.

Thanks for the emails from those that have written. I love to get emails from reiki blogger people. I am not a very developed person emotionally or spiritually, but I am always happen to listen and try to offer you some friendly opinions. But, if you really want some answers about your spiritual path you need to seek out a qualified spiritual master. Because I am a Buddhist I know that there are lots of excellent masters alive and well in that tradition, as I am sure there are in all the world’s wisdom traditions. But, one thing I do know for sure, is that they will not come up to you and say “I am your teacher” (at least not very often).. you have to work that out a bit for yourself.

If I have not written back yet, or not touched base for a while (Meredith..) I am sorry. And I will try harder. In case you are interested.. the baby is going well.. very happy little tacker.. and the other kids have adjusted well to having an extra person divide mum and dads attention. And, another exciting thing that is happening at the moment is that my wife and I have started a new business.. which is taking off at a roaring speed. So, it is busy, but happy times, in the Mount Lofty Ranges, Australia.

I will be posting further on the chakra series.. developing a chakra language to help understand your healing path.

I just wanted to post a quick weather report.

I have not been posting much lately because my wife (Donyo) has just given birth to our 3rd son, about 6 weeks ago, and things have been very hectic (to say the least!). He is a beautiful little guy and we have been so happy to welcome him into our little family.

So, I wanted to say sorry for letting the posts slow down alot for the last month and a bit. I am setting myself a goal of a minimum of one post per week for the next few months. There is so much great stuff to write about and share.. so hopefully, I can get some sleep! and write some more in the coming weeks and months..
Advertising
I have for as long as we have been blogging here on Reiki Blogger been in two minds about whether I like having ads on the site? Advertising has never really been the point for having Reiki Blogger but sometimes I think that there are some good sites out there, and it is really hard to find them.. and by letting people put an ad on our site, maybe people might find something that is otherwise really difficult to stumble upon.

So, I have decided to just keep the links across the top, which are ads by google. And I will continue to accept donations that some people have sent through to list their link in the blogroll. (So far I think we have just about paid for the hosting costs.. which is actually really cool..)

But, please do not take this in any way, shape or form as encouraging anyone to send me money. Keep it. Spend it on your reiki room. And if something I wrote makes sense and helped you. Take the credit yourself. If you were not open to receive the gift, it would remain just empty words!
Feedback
And I also wanted to say thanks to those people that have been sending emails and feedback. It is great to get an email from you guys. And I really appreciate all your thoughts and feedback. It helps me know what to write about.. and it is nice to connect with other reiki people.
Comments
We continue to be unable to activate comments on this blog. So I have given up trying. They will work for a day or two and then when someone submits a comment it does not get sent and the person gets a blank white screen.

I have experimented with re-installing our templates and hosting software (wordpress), but it does not seem to fix the problem. So, please send me an email if you have a comment or thought about something, I check them at least once a week, and will try and reply as quickly as I can.
Forum
While we are on housekeeping things.. We have had 15 people vote so far on whether they would like a forum to grow out of Reiki Blogger.. which at this stage I think, although the majority did think it was a good idea.. that is not really enough people to start one up. We have quite a few more people subscribed to Reiki Blogger.. so the community is here.. but, some people feel more comfortable not taking an active role.. which a forum would be.

The original inspiration for the forum was mainly because the comments were not working.. and I did not want the blog to just be all about me. I wanted people to have a chance to share their wisdom and learnings about reiki too.

But, it is early days. Maybe in the second half of the year?
Be well
Keep up your daily practise.. and be well. TC